| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Labour Campaign for Trans Rights | |
| Posted by: | Andy Riley | |
| Date/Time: | 18/02/20 08:36:00 |
| Tracie, I agree with Jennifer that we should be compassionate to all. Of course we should recognize that a small number of people are born with indeterminate sex and society should treat them with the same respect accorded to everyone as a human being. But you are conflating this with the push to recognize a person's expressed identity legally. Any individual can pretend to themselves to be anything they want, but societies function by evolving cultural norms that promote stability and nurturing of the young through family life. Different cultures do this differently but a common factor is the recognition of the physical male/female division in the form of socially constructed gender as man/woman. To question this is to undermine the basis for cultural continuity. Why would anyone want to do this? What is the real agenda? You don't address the concerns that if the Labour campaign for trans rights prevails, women's spaces would be compromised and many women's sports would be no more. How do you feel about a man claiming to be a woman pummeling a real women in a wrestling match? How do you feel about men claiming to be women parading around naked in a women's changing room? And there are real threats to free speech contained in the trans agenda, although on a positive note there is some recent push back by the judiciary: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/02/14/we-need-more-harry-millers/ |